Ten years later, Agnes dies and Ruth goes to live with her Aunt Agatha in a nearby fishing village, Sandwich.

[4] Charles Brabin and his assistant director, Edward Biby, began pre-production in mid-January by developing the sets and selecting the locations for exterior scenes.

[6] Those coast scenes were filmed outside San Francisco, and included over a thousand pounds of explosives being ignited.

Gibson-Gowland, Eugene Pallette, Sydney Deane, Lorena Foster, and Helen Jerome Eddy.

[8] Following the three days of filming at sea, Dana complained about how long it was taking her to get her "land-legs" back, due to the extreme rocking and rolling of the ship while they were on board.

[10] During the location filming at sea, the production was beset with issues deriving from the United States being on a war footing.

One incident occurred when the tugboat they had hired to ferry them to and from the seacraft where they were filming was returning at night with all its lights at full blast.

Suddenly a shot was fired across their bow, forcing them to stop, whereupon they were confronted by a coast guard vessel telling them that they were in violation of the wartime regulations, and that virtually every gun in the bay was targeted on them.

They reversed their engines in an attempt to avoid the mine, but their momentum carried them directly to the dangerous object, which they impacted to everyone's horror.

While the enjoyed the performance of Viola Dana, and the cinematography, particularly the exterior scenes of the fishing village, the found the story lacking.

They enjoyed Dana's performance, and also gave praise for the work of Bruce and Van Buren, with particular accolades for Simpson.